Funding


Finance

A16z Leads $4M Seed Round for Web 3 Recurring Payments Startup

Loop’s founders left bloXroute Labs to build automatic payment rails for crypto projects.

CEO Eleni Steinman, center, left bloXroute to tackle Web 3 payment rails. (Eleni Steinman)

Finance

Silver Lake Leads $150M Round in NFT Platform Genies

The investment values the avatar company at $1 billion.

(Genies)

Finance

DeFi Firm BloXroute Raises $70M to Fund Expansion in SoftBank-Led Round

The investment will enable the company to add to its team and extend its reach.

BloXroute raised $70 million to speed up DeFi transactions. (PM Images/Getty Images)

Finance

Circle Raises $400M as BlackRock Explores USDC

BlackRock and Fidelity headlined the stablecoin issuer's latest funding round, which follows a $440 million raise last May.

Circle founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire

Finance

IOST Foundation Starts $100M Fund for EVM Developers

The venture is being funded through IOST's institutional investment partners, with Big Candle Capital (BCC) leading the raise.

(Shutterstock)

Finance

White Star Capital Raises $120M Crypto Fund for Metaverse Investments

The company will deploy between $1 million and $7 million in token and equity investments into 20 to 25 companies.

(OsakaWayne Studios/Getty Images)

Finance

Ex-Blockstream Exec Samson Mow Raises $21M for Bitcoin Startup JAN3

Mow announced his new company during an appearance at the Bitcoin 2022 Conference in Miami.

Samson Mow, CEO de JAN3. (CoinDesk)

Finance

Andreessen Horowitz, SoftBank Lead $150M Raise for Metaverse Startup Improbable

The multiplayer services provider is accelerating its push into the metaverse.

A scene from inside Decentral Games' metaverse casino. (Eli Tan/CoinDesk)

Finance

Hashed Leads $6.5M Round for LOVO’s AI-Backed Voice NFTs

The company wants its synthetic speech tools to be used in chat apps or as in-game assets.

(Petr Macháček/Unsplash)

Finance

Blockchain Security Firm CertiK Confirms $88M Raise at $2B Valuation

The valuation was double from the last funding round in December.

(Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg via Getty Images)